Still hand in hand, Marie, Shuri, and I arrived at Gold-san’s smithy."Excuse me…"I called out and entered the shop without waiting for a response.I thought that Nelt-san would be the one inside the shop like usual, but I was wrong.With a curt expression on his face, Gold-san was polishing the wares behind the counter."Gold-san?""Oh, Marie and Shuri. And Cat Missy as well, huh?""It’s rare to see you inside the store…"Rather than rare, it might have been the first time."Nelt would literally kick me if all I did was sleep for having nothing to do, so… that’s why I’m now reluctantly polishing the wares.""And Nelt-san is?""She is out with one of our neighbours. So, what are you doing here? Didn’t you go to the capital?""I went there and met Gazar-san. Your letter helped a lot, thank you very much."I had already thanked Nelt-san but hadn’t yet gotten the chance to thank Gold-san, who had written the letter."How did you come back so fast? Ah, right, you can summon those Cats, c

The “Cat maids Relaxing Shop” was closed the next day, so it was the perfect opportunity to have a taste-test there.Morin and Karin were already at the shop while Marie went to the orphanage to get the children, and since we didn’t have enough cake for all of them, she would only bring the ones working here.When I got to the shop, Marie and the children were already there.There were also some people I hadn’t invited."Mylene, Elena, why are you here?"Somehow, it seemed as if the two adults had come here with the children…"Why, you ask…? We saw the children going here, so we talked to them and learned that we could taste your new recipe, Nicole."So, they came along because of that, huh.I looked at Marie, and she seemed troubled."Should I have not invited them?""No, it’s okay. We need someone to do the poison-test, after all."I couldn’t really blame it on Marie."Nicole, it isn’t nice to call us your poison testers…"Mylene said, but I ignored her."How did you even meet the c

With Elena’s parents giving her their questionable approval, she would now start working at my shop.First things first, though, I had her learn how to make cake, and after three days…"Nicole, I can’t do it anymore…""Keep it up, please.""My arms hurt! I give up…""You stopped moving your hands, you know.""Morin! Nicole is bullying me!""Do it properly, or I will kick you out.""Ugh, okay…"Elena Finally started beating eggs again after Morin’s threat.What would Elena’s parents think if they saw her like this?The image of a crying Elena being dragged home crossed my mind.Well, cooking was tiring, difficult work.I almost never had to do it, so I didn’t really mind, but beating a lot of eggs eventually tired your arms out.Hmm, I wore a Cat maid outfit, so I wouldn’t tire just from that, right?"Elena, here, use this."I said and took a pseudo hand mixer out of the Cat Box."What is this, Nicole?""I guess we could call it a magic mixing tool. It will make beating eggs much easie

"Princess Flora, how about you let go of Kurone for now and sit down with us?"I said in an attempt to get Kurone back."No!"Princess Flora said and kept hugging Kurone, which looked quite troubled within her arms.I wanted to save it, but she would cry if I forcibly took it away."Princess Flora, I brought some yummy food, so why don’t you have some? You won’t be able to eat it if you keep holding onto Kurone.""Yummy food?""Yeah, it’s really delicious. Also, Kurone is getting tired, so it said it wants to take a break."I glanced at Kurone to give it a signal, and it let out a small yawn to seem like it was tired.My Cats were well-known for their acting ability. They had already tricked Noa in the past and also threatened the villains who had come to attack me at the inn in Mireera by pretending to be man-eating Cats.After seeing that Kurone was getting tired, Princess Flora reluctantly let it go."I’m sorry, Kurone. I hope we can play again later."What a kind child.Kurone did

Eleanora seemed quite pleased with the fact that a shop using my recipes would be opening in the capital.However, in order for it to work out, I had to teach Zelef all of my recipes.I had given him my pudding recipe some time ago, but it seemed like he had only managed to make it after failing numerous times. Unlike in Japanese cookbooks, there were no pictures in this world. Also, it appeared that I hadn’t relayed some parts of the recipe well enough. That was why we decided I would be personally teaching him this time around."Should we start now, then?""Would that really be okay?""There doesn’t seem to be a problem, since everybody already finished their cakes."As I said, all of the plates were already empty, and it was time for me to make an excuse to get away from here, so that I could save Shirone from the queen. She hadn’t let go of it all this time and had managed to embrace it even while eating.Thinking of how to rescue it, I glanced at the queen, who was now elegantly